Sharla's World Famous Pork & Taters

Pork & Taters....this is our friend Sharla's best recipe. Her family is from Alabama like us, and our people love called potatoes "taters." This recipe is super simple and can be cooked in the oven or in a crock pot. All you need is pork, taters, and a can of cream of mushroom soup. The pork is tender and delicious. The potatoes are flavored from the soup and the pork chop drippings that run down on them. Sounds yummy, right?

Sharla's Pork & Taters:
2-4 bone-in pork chops
1 can cream of mushroom soup
4-6 potatoes, sliced thin
Salt & Pepper

Directions:
1. Slice potatoes very thin and place in the bottom of your crock pot or casserole dish.
2. Pour cream of mushroom soup over potatoes.
3. Place pork chops on top of soup and season with salt & pepper.
4. If using a crock pot, cook on low for 6-8 hours. If using the oven, cook at 350 degrees until the pork chops and potatoes are done (anywhere between 45 minutes - 1 hour, depending on the thickness of the pork chops).

Zucchini Couscous

A couple of years ago, we discovered couscous. We really like it, but sometimes it can be a little boring. One night, I decided to try and sneak some veggies into our meal and I chopped up some zucchini into the couscous. To my surprise, Jason loved it and now this is how we eat couscous. The rest of tonight's meal included pork chops that I grilled in the dark (I've got skills) and roasted butternut squash.

Zucchini Couscous
1 box of plain couscous
1 small onion, chopped
1 teaspoon garlic, minced
2 zucchini, chopped
Salt & Pepper

Directions:
1. Cook couscous according to package directions. Basically, boil water, stir in couscous and let sit for 5 minutes off the heat.
2. In a skillet, saute the chopped onion and zucchini until both are tender
3. Pour zucchini/onion mixture over the couscous and mix well

Tonight I just poured the mixture on top of the couscous, I didn't mix it in like normal. I'm not sure why. It turned out just as good though.

Pork Chops and Applesauce

Ok, ok, no applesauce, just a baked potato. It was late, I was tired, but I decided to cook dinner anyway. We tried these cooking bags from McCormick. The flavors were really great and they cook in 30 minutes. Just dump the meat in the bag, add the spices, cut a few holes in the bag, and stick in the oven. It couldn't be easier and the pork chops were delicious. We had baked potatoes as a side. We ate at 10:00!